Spirulina jenneri (Hassall) Kützing var. platensis Nordstedt in Wittrock & Nordstedt, 1884: no. 679 (type locality: Montevideo, Uruguay).
Arthrospira platensis (Nordstedt) Gomont, 1892b: 247.—S. Silva, 1991: 147, 149, figs. 2.18, 2.19, tables 1, 2.— Thajuddin & G. Subramanian, 1992a: table III.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Mozambique.
Note: Drouet (1968: 279, 304), after examining the holotype of this species (in LD), assigned it to Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kützing) P. Crouan & H. Crouan.